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Round the Earth. He followed the ship's outline up the dim chamber. The hull, a shipshaped cavity carved out of the bedrock, appeared to be about 125 ft. long and 17 ft. wide. Its six wooden decks were somewhat shrunken away from the stone, and so. El Malakh could see down and count them. The wood seemed in fine condition, as if the painters had just finished their job. There were no cobwebs, which is a sign that the chamber's gypsum seal had never been broken. If the industrious graverobbers of ancient Egypt had really missed...
...Bedrock Argument. The Four Power communique raised some questions which Dulles began to answer this week in private conferences with key Senators and Representatives. Didn't the mere invitation to Peking give Red China a new status among nations, and wasn't that a step toward de facto recognition? Not necessarily, said the State Department, calling attention to the fact that Dulles actually got Molotov to sign a clause in the communique saying that the invitation to China did not imply recognition. Moreover, China is going to Geneva not as a sponsoring power but as a government invited...
Dulles' bedrock argument was that if the U.S. wants to preserve its diplomatic gains in Europe, there is no way out of a subsequent conference on Asia. Molotov's aim at Berlin was to split off France from the Big Three; France's Foreign Minister Bidault was under instructions from his government to work for negotiations with Peking. It is far better-the Dulles argument continued-to have joint negotiations than to split the Big Three and have France negotiating with the Communists...
...Rice) De Santis also injects an extraordinary amount of sex appeal into his picture, notably by having the better part of the 200 attractive accident victims strewed about on the collapsed staircase in various states of fetching disarray. But underneath all this excessive color, the picture has a hard bedrock of realism that props it up dramatically: it is an earnest, often eloquent indictment of social conditions that can lead to such a disaster in the first place. The moral is underlined at the end. After the last accident victim has been removed, one of the girls again lines...
Steady Job Without Pay. Charles Dawes's bedrock integrity never led him into a silly contempt for money. In 1880, when his father was running for Congress, young Charley, 15, startled his staunch Republican family by parading past their Marietta, Ohio home tootling a flute in the opposition band. It was, he explained airil when he got home, a purely professional appearance for which he had received one silver dollar...